09 Doylestown House-The Stove – Sheeler

Black and white photograph by Charles Sheeler of woodburning stove in country house
Charles Sheeler, (American, 1883 – 1965), Doylestown House–The Stove, 1917, gelatin silver print, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund, 1998.19.3

This gelatin silver print by American artist Charles Sheeler is one of several images he created while experimenting with the modernist ideas he’d discovered in the breakthrough work of artists like Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso.

We’ll find out how these experimental images, created in an old country house in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, led to Sheeler becoming one of the most innovative and important American artists. (By the way, Bucks County is lovely, I highly recommend visiting!)

And we’ll discover his connection to Vogue and Vanity Fair!


show notes

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas
youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Dead From the Beginning Alive Till the End” by Doctor Turtle.
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Doctor_Turtle/none_given_1561/Dead_From_The_Beginning_Alive_Till_The_End

Doylestown House — The Stove information
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.103272.html

https://www.nga.gov/global-site-search-page.html?searchterm=sheeler&category=Online%20Features&pageNumber=1&lastFacet=category

“Charles Sheeler,” NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/constituent/2745

Gelatin silver process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelatin_silver_process

Slow Art Day
http://www.slowartday.com